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The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (the Secretariat) centrally manages Votes to perform its statutory responsibilities for managing the government's financial, human and materiel resources. Planned spending in the Secretariat's Program 5: Government-Wide Funds and Public Service Employer Payments relates mainly to the following Vote:
This Vote, which supports the Treasury Board's role as employer, is used for the following:
Other contingency funds are available to other government departments, if required, and expenditures will be identified under their programs. The following Votes are therefore excluded from the Secretariat's planned spending:
This Vote serves to supplement other appropriations and to provide for miscellaneous, urgent or unforeseen expenditures not otherwise provided for, including grants and contributions not listed in the Estimates and the increase of the amount of grants listed in these Estimates, where those expenditures are within the legal mandate of a government organization, and authority to re-use any sums allotted and repaid to this appropriation from other appropriations.
This Vote supplements other departments and agencies' appropriations that support the implementation of strategic management initiatives across the public service. Historically, this Vote has been used to support such initiatives as Government Online, comptrollership innovation and modernization, the Financial Information Strategy, employment equity and program evaluation and internal audit.
This Vote supplements other appropriations to provide funding for the increased personnel costs of the collective agreements between the Treasury Board and the collective bargaining units representing public service employees, as well as the collective agreements signed by separate employers. These include members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Forces, Governor-in-Council appointees and Crown corporations as defined in section 83 of the Financial Administration Act.
This Vote supplements other appropriations for the operating budget carry forward from the previous fiscal year.
This Vote supplements other appropriations for requirements related to parental and maternity allowances, entitlements on cessation of service or employment and adjustments made to terms and conditions of service or employment of the public service including members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Forces, where these have not been provided from the Compensation Adjustments Vote.
This Vote supplements other appropriations for the capital budget carry forward from the previous fiscal year.